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RANKFORT, KY (WAVE) - A Kentucky teachers group is urging teachers to call in sick on Thursday to protest HB 525 in Frankfort. The group, KY 120 United, is a grassroots group that led protests during the last legislative session. The group is not directly affiliated with teachers unions in the state of Kentucky. In a letter obtained by WAVE 3 News, the group is urging teachers to “take bold action” and to “ask employees in every work site to call in sick tomorrow (Thursday).” See the full letter below: Dear KEA & JCTA members! Please DO NOT POST TO...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) accused Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) of a “racist act” in presenting Housing and Urban Development official Lynne Patton, a black woman, as a refutation of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s claim that President Trump is “racist.” “Just to make a note, Mr. Chairman, just because someone has a person of color, a black people working for them, does not mean they aren’t racist,” Tlaib said in her closing remarks after question Cohen. “And it is even insensitive, some would even say the fact that someone would even use a prop, a black woman in this chamber,...

Will the Senate GOP Allow Islamists to Drag Us Into Their Fight With China? Why the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act is a mistake. February 27, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 42 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism The Senate is stewing with resolutions that are little more than Islamist wish lists. Last year they were aimed at defending Qatar, a key sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood, over a blockade imposed on it by the Saudis, defending Qatari terror lobbyist Jamal Khashoggi, and demanding...

A psychotherapist has warned a Christian conference opposed to queer ideology that if LGBT activists successfully ban secular counseling for people with unwanted same-sex attraction, they will next go after religious counselors. A conference known as “God’s Voice: A Biblical Response to the Queering of the Church” was held Feb. 22-23 at Fairview Baptist Church of Edmond, Oklahoma. David Pickup, a licensed therapist who is a board member at the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and a practitioner of sexual orientation change efforts therapy, spoke at the God’s Voice conference last weekend. During his remarks, Pickup...

The headline was worthy of The Onion, but it was in the Wall Street Journal when it was still a respectable newspaper: "America Needs A President Like Me" by Donald John Trump. He then laid out what would become his presidency. On September 30, 1999. The billionaire playboy began, "Let's cut to the chase. Yes, I am considering a run for president. The reason has nothing to do with vanity, as some have suggested, nor do I merely wish to block other candidates. I will only run if I become convinced I can win, a decision I will make later...

EXCLUSIVE: Gambino mob heir predicts Michael Cohen will get WHACKED in prison because 'inmates love Trump and hate rats' An heir to the Gambino crime family has issued a stark warning to Michael Cohen, predicting that President Donald Trump's former personal attorney may face retaliation behind bars over his Congressional testimony. 'Inmates love Trump, and hate rats. If he wants to get out alive, he better keep his mouth shut about Trump,' Giovanni said.

Attorney general announced Tuesday subpoenas for over 400 Catholic parishes, schoolsLINCOLN, Neb. (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Nebraska attorney general is requiring more than 400 Catholic parishes and institutions to hand over documents related to sexual abuse. The office of Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson issued subpoenas to Catholic parishes, schools and other entities, demanding documents related to allegations of Catholic clerical sex abuse. In a press release on Tuesday, the Nebraska Department of Justice announced this move. It stated: Today, the Nebraska Department of Justice, working alongside various law enforcement agencies, issued subpoenas to over 400 Catholic churches and institutions across...

New York’s Insane Commission on Human Rights When you see a hair in your soup in a New York restaurant, you can thank the Commission. February 25, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 42 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism In December 2018, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a radical group supportive of terrorists, passed a display in the window of a Prada store in New York City. The display showed toy squids, aliens and monkeys that were part of the...

CAIRO – 26 February 2019: “A special envoy of Pope Francis, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, laid the foundation stone of the Coptic Catholic Cathedral in Nasser city, west Assiut, in the presence of a huge crowd,” stated Bishop Cyrilus Welliam Motran on Tuesday. “Sandri met with several officials, priests and members of monastic orders in the Monastery of Drenka,” Motran added. He also said that head of the Vatican's eastern churches and his delegation will visit Egypt between February 24 and March 4 on the occasion of the eighth centennial of the meeting between St. Francis of Assisi and the King...

LONDON, February 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A viral video depicts a street preacher facing arrest in England for supposed “racism” as he shares the Gospel. Now shared more than two million times, the video shows the exchange between the as-yet-unidentified preacher and two police officers. Beginning in mid-conversation, the preacher told the two officers, "I can be arrested if you want." The preacher told an officer, “Give your life to the Lord, Jesus Christ.” When one of the officers asked him what he was doing, the preacher responded, "I am preaching." The officer in the video told the man "I'm...

A GoFundMe campaign to raise money to send young girls to screenings of Marvel Studios' first female-led film, "Captain Marvel," has hit more than $60,000 — three times the amount organizers initially sought. The campaign had raised more than $61,000 as of Wednesday evening after asking for $20,000 for its effort to rent out theaters in Los Angeles to allow underprivileged girls to see the movie. "Everyone should have an opportunity to see women in roles they can aspire to one day be, roles that show women as strong, smart and bold," the campaign's organizers, Girls Inc. LA, wrote on...

Hillary Clinton said she “can’t imagine” any circumstance in which she would run for president again in 2020 or beyond. But the former secretary of state said in the latest episode of Tina Brown’s “TBD” podcast that she won’t stay silent with her criticism of President Donald Trump, who defeated her in the 2016 election. “I’ve had a terrific experience in public life and in politics. I care deeply about this country and I am very worried about the direction that Trump and his allies are taking us,” said Clinton. “So I will continue to speak out and fight for...

Gov DeSantis: "I’m asking the Legislature to send me a bill during this legislative session to address sanctuary cities and counties in Florida. I’m also calling on more local law enforcement to work with the federal government to ensure our immigration laws are enforced and justice is upheld."

Candace Owens taunted Michael Cohen Wednesday morning after Trump’s former lawyer testified that Donald Trump is a “racist” and a “con man.” Michael Cohen, a convicted liar who was just disbarred, testified in a public Congressional hearing on Wednesday. In his opening statement, Cohen called President Trump a “racist” a “con man” and “a cheat.” Candace Owens immediately dropped in with a little surprise. Ms. Owens tweeted out a private Twitter message Michael Cohen sent her last summer and asked, “Should I go nuclear on Michael Cohen?” “Should I go nuclear on Michael Cohen Who I know from years ago...

Sen. Bernie Sanders says he’ll “soon” release a decade’s worth of his tax returns. But the independent from Vermont who last week launched his second straight bid for the Democratic presidential nomination downplayed the public unveiling of his financial details, saying “they’re very boring tax returns.” LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND SOCIALIST A rival for the nomination – Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts – last August posted 10 years of her returns online. Asked during a CNN town hall Monday night why the delay in releasing his returns, Sanders answered “well, you know, the delay is not -- it'll bore...

12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. 13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ FLAG FOLDERS Sailors fold an American flag and a First Navy Jack after shifting colors on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt during a port visit in Singapore, April 6, 2018. Navy photo by Seaman Michael Hogan Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. IDAHO GUNNERY Army engineers conduct M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicle gunnery qualification at the Orchard Combat Training Center south of Boise, Idaho, March...

Here is a brief summary of the accomplishments of the special called 2019 General Conference of The United Methodist Church held in St. Louis. Given the opportunity to support the full court press of the majority of North American bishops in their advocacy of the One Church Plan, a decisive majority of delegates instead chose the Traditional Plan. By a vote of 438 to 384 (53.3 percent), adopted the Traditional Plan, parts of which will not be able to go into effect because they are unconstitutional. Parts that willgo into effect are: • Expanded definition of “self-avowed homosexuals” to include...

U.S. Army equipment experts plan to test lighter-weight, individual body armor plates by this summer, according to a recently released Defense Department test and evaluation report. The Army's multi-component Soldier Protection System body armor features hard-armor plates designed to stop rifle rounds. They’re known as the Vital Torso Protection component of the system.

A state employee complained that the wife of embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam reportedly handed the students cotton and asked them “if they could imagine what it must have been like to pick cotton all day.” Leah Dozier Walker, an official in the state Department of Education, said that the incident demonstrates that the Northams have not learned from past actions.